Because of the volume of override votes compared to the few votes on other issues thus far, we’ve decided to treat them differently than usual on our scorecard. Were we to score each one on an individual basis, the overrides alone would essentially dictate a legislator’s score for the entire year. That doesn’t seem fair, so we’ve aggregated the override votes into a single position.

MethodologyMass Fiscal supports voting no on all veto overrides. To determine whether a legislator should receive ayes or no vote on the scorecard, we split up the data in the following way:

First, we calculated the number of no votes each legislator took on the overrides

All legislators who voted no 0% of the time automatically received a yes vote on the scorecard

Next, we took the list of legislators who voted no some of the time

From that list we calculated the median number of no votes taken

Legislators with a number of no votes above the median received a no vote on the scorecard

Legislators with a number of no votes below the median received a yes vote on the scorecard

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